By Paul Wojciechowski, PE, AICP, LCI, Principal, Alta Planning + Design So you installed low-stress bikeways…now what? For communities across the country, installing low-stress bikeways such as bicycle boulevards or protected bike lanes can be a long, hard road. A ton of work leads up to reconfiguring a roadway. The process of building community and […]
By Katie Mangle, Principal, Alta Planning + Design There are many reasons we do what we do here at Alta Planning + Design. Most of our staff love to bike. We love to walk. We have fond memories wandering trails with our friends and family. But Alta’s mission — to create active communities — is part of a much, […]
by Brad Davis, Senior Planner, Alta Planning + Design During our work on planning projects in Atlanta, such as Cycle Atlanta, we dusted off some great old plans from Atlanta transportation planning history. It wasn’t all highways back in the day. With so much cycling growth in recent years tied to projects like the Atlanta […]
by Tom Millar, Planner, Alta Planning + Design If you’ve been in the business of pedestrian and bicycle planning for very long, chances are you’ve seen a really great plan “sit on the shelf” and languish without implementation. Momentum is usually built in a community during plan development. Often, a finite window of opportunity exists […]
by Nick Falbo, Former Planner at Alta Planning + Design It feels like we’re in a golden age of bikeway design and engineering with the constantly evolving NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide, the People for Bikes Green Lane Project, the recent FHWA approval of bicycle signal heads and the new protected bike lanes being implemented […]
by Mark Seinen, Former Planner at Alta Planning + Design Barrier-separated cycle tracks are a great opportunity to add high-capacity bike parking in downtown areas. Here are some design strategies that have proven effective in Vancouver, BC. Begin with a two-way cycle track adjacent to motor vehicle parking: The space between the intersection and first […]
